# versioncmp

**Repository Path**: mirrors_brechtsanders/versioncmp

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: versioncmp
- **Description**: Version compare function in C
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-11-22
- **Last Updated**: 2025-12-27

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## README

# Version string compare for C
The versioncmp library is a cross-platform C library providing string compare functions to compare strings while taking version numbers into accounts. These can be used for sorting data containing version numbers.

When sorting strings alphabetically numbers are also sorted alphabetically.
For example `10` will come before `2`, because the text comparison works from left to right, and `1` is smaller than `2`.
When using version strings (e.g. `2.10.5`) the comparison function should detect whole numbers and compare those numerically.
The non-numeric parts of the strings are still compared alphanumerically.

The provided comparison functions can ba used with `qsort()`.

This library has no external dependancies.